Acquisition
GCN award winners announced, and State issues cell phone and IT solicitations
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Modernization
A Digital Rat Brain Could Power Future Smartphones
Rather than a traditional computer, these computer chips are designed to work like neurons.
Emerging Tech
Time to Hide: Google’s Humanoid Robot Can Now Walk Outside on its Own
The robots are coming.
Cybersecurity
IG warns Labor on information security
Among other problems, the department had a history of failing to switch off access privileges for former employees.
Digital Government
Nextgov Prime 2015 Keynote Speakers Announced
Cybersecurity and government data leaders to headline daylong event.
Modernization
ICANN handoff officially delayed
It will be at least another year before Internet domain naming and addressing functions are handed off to a global, multi-stakeholder body.
Modernization
Is the IRS thinking about a switch to off-the-shelf CRM?
A recent sources sought notice indicates the IRS might be looking to a commercial customer relationship management tool as a way to lower the cost of taxpayer contact.
Acquisition
Moving from oversight to outcomes with FITARA
The law's success hinges on a culture change from blame-setting to measuring progress toward desired goals.
Cybersecurity
Pentagon Researchers Will Wage Counterattack on Crippling ‘DDoS’ Cyber Strikes
Stability of agency operations, banking, online gaming and many other daily activities are at stake here.
Emerging Tech
QTS Sets Eyes on Federal Market with Carpathia Acquisition
The Kansas-based company, which already services many federal customers through 12 nationwide data centers, spent $326 million acquiring the cloud services provider.
Modernization
State Department Looks to Outfit Workers with 'the Most Contemporary' Mobile Devices
This is no small task considering the agency currently provides 36,000 mobile devices to its employees stationed in almost every country in the world.
Cybersecurity
Bigger IRS breach, institutionalizing PIF, and FAA drones and glitches
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Cybersecurity
IRS Data Breach Nearly Three Times Bigger than Previously Reported
An internal investigation revealed the cyberattack affected 220,000 more taxpayer accounts than was originally estimated.
Digital Government
Video: The Inconvenient Truth About Wearing Earbuds
Ditch the earbuds and save your hearing.
Digital Government
How Phone Companies Used 'Supercookies' to Track Customers' Web Browsing
AT&T and Verizon continued tracking users' unencrypted traffic for months after backlash over the practice erupted in November 2014, researchers found.
Emerging Tech
This 2,000 Trillion Watt Laser Could Re-Create the Big Bang–and Make Clean Energy
This laser beam, the most powerful laser ever created, has been recently fired at Osaka University in Japan.
Digital Government
Amazon's Despised Management Tool Could Be Coming to Your Office
Who doesn’t enjoy a good round of brutal criticism?
Digital Government